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Economics: Introduction Practice Tests

These Grade 9 Social Studies practice tests introduce how people, businesses, and governments make choices with scarce resources. Questions cover scarcity, opportunity cost, incentives, production, specialization, supply and demand, markets, economic systems, trade, and basic economic indicators.

Skills covered

  • Explaining scarcity, opportunity cost, trade-offs, incentives, marginal analysis, and rational choices
  • Identifying land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship, productivity, specialization, division of labor, and human capital
  • Applying demand, supply, equilibrium, shortages, surpluses, market changes, and production costs
  • Comparing market, command, and mixed economies and explaining property rights, competition, public goods, and externalities
  • Understanding comparative advantage, imports, exports, tariffs, GDP, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth

How to use these practice tests

Begin by identifying the scarce resource or economic decision. Then determine the opportunity cost, incentive, market force, or indicator involved and connect it to the evidence in the question.

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Grade 9 Economics: Introduction Practice Tests

Practice Grade 9 Social Studies questions about scarcity, opportunity cost, production, incentives, supply and demand, economic systems, trade, and basic economic indicators.

Choose the best answer. Identify the scarce resource, incentive, market force, economic system, or indicator described and apply the relevant principle.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

What is scarcity?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The condition that resources are limited while human wants are extensive..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Scarcity exists because resources such as time, money, labor, and materials are limited compared with wants.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is The condition that resources are limited while human wants are extensive..

Scarcity exists because resources such as time, money, labor, and materials are limited compared with wants.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

What is opportunity cost?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is The value of the next-best alternative given up when a choice is made..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Opportunity cost measures what is sacrificed when scarce resources are used for one option instead of the next-best option.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is The value of the next-best alternative given up when a choice is made..

Opportunity cost measures what is sacrificed when scarce resources are used for one option instead of the next-best option.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a trade-off?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Giving up one benefit or option to gain another..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Trade-offs are the competing benefits and costs that result from choosing among limited alternatives.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is Giving up one benefit or option to gain another..

Trade-offs are the competing benefits and costs that result from choosing among limited alternatives.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Why is time considered a scarce resource?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is People have limited time and must choose how to use it among competing activities..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Because time is limited, using it for studying, work, or leisure means giving up other possible uses.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is People have limited time and must choose how to use it among competing activities..

Because time is limited, using it for studying, work, or leisure means giving up other possible uses.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

What is an incentive?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A reward or penalty that influences the choices people make..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Incentives change the expected benefits or costs of actions and can encourage or discourage behavior.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is A reward or penalty that influences the choices people make..

Incentives change the expected benefits or costs of actions and can encourage or discourage behavior.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

What is marginal analysis?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Comparing the additional benefit and additional cost of one more unit or action..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Marginal analysis asks whether the extra benefit of an action is worth its extra cost.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is Comparing the additional benefit and additional cost of one more unit or action..

Marginal analysis asks whether the extra benefit of an action is worth its extra cost.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

What is a rational economic choice in a simple model?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is A choice in which expected additional benefits are at least as large as additional costs..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Economic models often assume people compare expected marginal benefits and costs, while recognizing that real decisions can include nonmonetary values.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is A choice in which expected additional benefits are at least as large as additional costs..

Economic models often assume people compare expected marginal benefits and costs, while recognizing that real decisions can include nonmonetary values.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

What are goods?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Physical products that satisfy wants or needs..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Goods are tangible items such as food, clothing, tools, and furniture.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is Physical products that satisfy wants or needs..

Goods are tangible items such as food, clothing, tools, and furniture.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

What are services?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Activities or work performed to satisfy wants or needs..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Services are intangible actions such as teaching, transportation, health care, repair, or entertainment.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is Activities or work performed to satisfy wants or needs..

Services are intangible actions such as teaching, transportation, health care, repair, or entertainment.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Why must every economic choice have an opportunity cost?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Using limited resources for one option leaves fewer resources available for another option..

  1. Identify the economics concept: Determine whether the question concerns scarcity, choices, production, markets, trade, or economic indicators.
  2. Apply the economic principle: Scarcity means choosing one alternative generally requires giving up the next-best alternative.
  3. Check the answer: The correct answer is Using limited resources for one option leaves fewer resources available for another option..

Scarcity means choosing one alternative generally requires giving up the next-best alternative.

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